Student invents Eco-friendly plastic from potatoes
It is a kind of thermo-plastic that makes it hard at high temperature but soft at low temperature
(Web Desk) - Pontus Torquist, 24-year-old student, made this eco-friendly plastic with water and potato husk that decomposed in a few months. For this he, he heated potato husk with water. At each stage, the soluble thickened and later placed it in the template to make spoons and other items.
It is a kind of thermo-plastic that makes it hard at high temperature but soft at low temperature. In this it can be turned into favorite shape . Bags, cutlery, and straws can also be made as potatoes are prepared for plastic for special food industry, where only a large number of plastic is used.
Ordinary plastics do not end even in thousands of years, while potatoes turn into a plastic cradle after stirring in just two months. Its inventor said that plastic is a major problem of fast food industry that comes in soft drinks, packing, spoon and straw. If this industry uses plastic potatoes, it can be very beneficial.
On this innovation of Pontus Torquist, he has been awarded the James Dyson Award of 2018, which includes the amount of 22,000 Swedish krona.
